Implemented nofollow links evolve to ugc

[janslu]

Google has announced expansion of rel="nofollow" link standard to contain more detailed rel="ugc" for User Generated Content. This may also be combined with existing nofollow - to be rel="ugc nofollow". I think this may be a good addition to external links in posts at some point in time...

 

[StarArmy]

Very interesting.

 

[janslu]

This is for marking external links entered by users. XenForo already marks them as nofollow.

 

[dvsDave]

Where we can modify this code ourselves?

 

[janslu]

There’s no rush to change this. This is a new standard, and only supported by Google for now. It will maybe start to matter in 6 months, when Google will change how they treat nofollow (“signal” not “directive”). Intention of my post is to signal that URLs inserted by our users should have rel=“ugc nofollow” according to a document released by Google yesterday. There’s nothing immediate about it all, and in a timeframe of months nothing will break...

 

[janslu]

Here’s a handy table showing the timeline:

 

[dethfire]

Wordpress is making the change for comment links

WordPress To Adopt The New Google rel=ugc Link Attribute in Next Release

Joost de Valk, from Yoast but a person who is super tight with WordPress, said WordPress will adopt the new link attributes announced by Google the other day. He said it will be introduced in the next release because "it's a one line change" to the code base.

www.seroundtable.com

 

[StarArmy]

Wordpress is making the change for comment links

WordPress To Adopt The New Google rel=ugc Link Attribute in Next Release

Joost de Valk, from Yoast but a person who is super tight with WordPress, said WordPress will adopt the new link attributes announced by Google the other day. He said it will be introduced in the next release because "it's a one line change" to the code base.

www.seroundtable.com

Dokuwiku is too! I had the pleasure of getting to make my first pull request for changing "nofollow" to "ugc nofollow" and it got approved

 

[Vroomm]

@dethfire @StarArmy

Where we can modify this code ourselves?

If you're still interested, here's how you can do it.

Go to Xenforo-Install/src/XF/BbCode/Renderer/Html.php

find

        if (!$linkInfo['trusted'] && !empty($options['noFollowUrl']))
        {
            $rels[] = 'nofollow';
        }

You obviously know what to do next. As in, change

$rels[] = 'nofollow';
to
$rels[] = 'nofollow ugc';

Next up, go to

Xenforo-Install/src/XF/Template/Templater.php

find

        if (!$linkInfo['trusted'] && $options['noFollowUrl'])
        {
            $rels[] = 'nofollow';
        }

Do the same as above.

Profit!!

Now i wish i knew how to find out if the user is a guest or member so i could completely hide links from guests.

 

[dethfire]

@dethfire @StarArmy


If you're still interested, here's how you can do it.

Go to Xenforo-Install/src/XF/BbCode/Renderer/Html.php

find

        if (!$linkInfo['trusted'] && !empty($options['noFollowUrl']))
        {
            $rels[] = 'nofollow';
        }

You obviously know what to do next. As in, change

$rels[] = 'nofollow';
to
$rels[] = 'nofollow ugc';

Next up, go to

Xenforo-Install/src/XF/Template/Templater.php

find

        if (!$linkInfo['trusted'] && $options['noFollowUrl'])
        {
            $rels[] = 'nofollow';
        }

Do the same as above.

Profit!!

Now i wish i knew how to find out if the user is a guest or member so i could completely hide links from guests.

But upgrading will overwrite

 

[Vroomm]

But upgrading will overwrite

Yes, unfortunately. I don't know how to hook this place with an add-on. Would have written one.

 

[Vroomm]

But upgrading will overwrite

Apparently not. I just upgraded to 2.10 and the code is still there. So it will only be removed when these files are changed which should be rare

 

[Masetrix]

Apparently not. I just upgraded to 2.10 and the code is still there. So it will only be removed when these files are changed which should be rare

Is this posting still up to date?

Implemented - nofollow links evolve to ugc

Google has announced expansion of rel="nofollow" link standard to contain more detailed rel="ugc" for User Generated Content. This may also be combined with existing nofollow - to be rel="ugc nofollow". I think this may be a good addition to external links in posts at some point in time...

xenforo.com

 

[Chris D]

This is implemented in XF 2.2 and was announced here:

XF 2.2 - Search forums, SEO improvements and dev team news

A new way to surface content Forums are usually devoted to a single subject matter and the threads they contain relate to that subject matter, unless it's all gone wrong and your users are wandering off topic. Threads belong to their parent forums, so if your board separates posts about kittens...

xenforo.com

There's very little benefit in modifying code now to account for this but at least the wait for official support isn't too far away.